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Examples of metaphysical statements that Ayer would reject include:
{ 1 } - "Redness and other universals are independently existing entities."
{ 2 } - "Pegasus and all fictional beings are possible beings that lack actuality."
{ 3 } - "Each of us has an immaterial and immortal soul."
{ 4 } - "A material object is just a set of ideas in our mind or in God's mind."
{ 5 } - "Behind each material thing is an unobservable substance."
{ 6 } - "An immaterial God created the universe."
{ 7 } - All of these.
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Examples of metaphysical statements that Ayer would reject include:
{ 1 } - "Redness and other universals are independently existing entities."
{ 2 } - "Pegasus and all fictional beings are possible beings that lack actuality."
{ 3 } - "Each of us has an immaterial and immortal soul."
{ 4 } - "A material object is just a set of ideas in our mind or in God's mind."
{ 5 } - "Behind each material thing is an unobservable substance."
{ 6 } - "An immaterial God created the universe."
{ 7 } - All of these.
The others are examples also.
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Examples of metaphysical statements that Ayer would reject include:
{ 1 } - "Redness and other universals are independently existing entities."
{ 2 } - "Pegasus and all fictional beings are possible beings that lack actuality."
{ 3 } - "Each of us has an immaterial and immortal soul."
{ 4 } - "A material object is just a set of ideas in our mind or in God's mind."
{ 5 } - "Behind each material thing is an unobservable substance."
{ 6 } - "An immaterial God created the universe."
{ 7 } - All of these.
The others are examples also.
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Examples of metaphysical statements that Ayer would reject include:
{ 1 } - "Redness and other universals are independently existing entities."
{ 2 } - "Pegasus and all fictional beings are possible beings that lack actuality."
{ 3 } - "Each of us has an immaterial and immortal soul."
{ 4 } - "A material object is just a set of ideas in our mind or in God's mind."
{ 5 } - "Behind each material thing is an unobservable substance."
{ 6 } - "An immaterial God created the universe."
{ 7 } - All of these.
The others are examples also.
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Examples of metaphysical statements that Ayer would reject include:
{ 1 } - "Redness and other universals are independently existing entities."
{ 2 } - "Pegasus and all fictional beings are possible beings that lack actuality."
{ 3 } - "Each of us has an immaterial and immortal soul."
{ 4 } - "A material object is just a set of ideas in our mind or in God's mind."
{ 5 } - "Behind each material thing is an unobservable substance."
{ 6 } - "An immaterial God created the universe."
{ 7 } - All of these.
The others are examples also.
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Examples of metaphysical statements that Ayer would reject include:
{ 1 } - "Redness and other universals are independently existing entities."
{ 2 } - "Pegasus and all fictional beings are possible beings that lack actuality."
{ 3 } - "Each of us has an immaterial and immortal soul."
{ 4 } - "A material object is just a set of ideas in our mind or in God's mind."
{ 5 } - "Behind each material thing is an unobservable substance."
{ 6 } - "An immaterial God created the universe."
{ 7 } - All of these.
The others are examples also.
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Examples of metaphysical statements that Ayer would reject include:
{ 1 } - "Redness and other universals are independently existing entities."
{ 2 } - "Pegasus and all fictional beings are possible beings that lack actuality."
{ 3 } - "Each of us has an immaterial and immortal soul."
{ 4 } - "A material object is just a set of ideas in our mind or in God's mind."
{ 5 } - "Behind each material thing is an unobservable substance."
{ 6 } - "An immaterial God created the universe."
{ 7 } - All of these.
The others are examples also.
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Examples of metaphysical statements that Ayer would reject include:
{ 1 } - "Redness and other universals are independently existing entities."
{ 2 } - "Pegasus and all fictional beings are possible beings that lack actuality."
{ 3 } - "Each of us has an immaterial and immortal soul."
{ 4 } - "A material object is just a set of ideas in our mind or in God's mind."
{ 5 } - "Behind each material thing is an unobservable substance."
{ 6 } - "An immaterial God created the universe."
{ 7 } - All of these.
All these are "metaphysical" claims -- claims that are neither empirically verifiable (testable by sense experience) nor analytic (true by definition) -- and so are nonsensical according to Ayer.
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